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PGXPM CURRICULUM
 
PGXPM HIGHLIGHTS
 
The Program
  • Two years part time (2 week residency once in four months). Stringent selection process including entrance test and panel interview.
  • Rigorous 1500 hours learning time over 6 trimesters. 30 courses excluding Chinese mandarin throughout 2 years.
  • Top faculty from leading US, Asian and Indian B-Schools.
  • Rich peer environment for cross-learning and networking as course participants are fast-track senior managers from top companies.
  • Course content is tailored to suit the global business environment
  • Unique program design focused on building capability, learn, apply, appraise, reflect, be coached, redo, report, mentored. Program integrated with the organisation’s talent management process.
  • Individual country based / vertical based intensive year-long project in 2nd year under a faculty guide.
  • Leadership lectures series aligned to the course plan.
  • Quasi-consulting: Participants are given real business issues to analyze and solve.
  • Optional overseas visit in last semester.
The Base

Great Lakes is currently located in a quiet and green locality in the heart of Chennai, one of India's main metropolitan cities. The campus is easily accessible from the Chennai Airport, Central Railway Station and the City Bus Stand.

Great Lakes will shift to a world-class campus of their own on about 18 acres of land near Mahabalipuram on the ECR, which is expected to be ready by April 2009.

Location

Post Graduate Global Executive Program in Management contact classes will be held at a Beach Resort on the East Coast Road, Chennai. A modern day gurukulam, the picturesque seaside resort will provide a world-class learning environment for the participants.

Inspiring Guest Lectures

Guest Lectures are an integral part of our offering. Participants get a chance to interact closely with visionaries, achievers and outstanding personalities on a wide variety of contemporary topics.

Recent speakers include Dr. Ratan Tata, Prof. Philip Kotler, Prof. C.K. Prahlad, Prof. Ashwath Damodaran, Dr. Y. V. Reddy, Prof. Jagdish Sheth, Mr. Vivek Paul and Mr. K. B. Chandrasekhar. The topics discussed have been as varied as sustaining competitive advantage, managing scales of growth, handling crisis in markets, technology and economies.

Computer Centre

The computer lab at Great Lakes institute is wellequipped and offers Internet and e-mail services. The centre has several software packages that help participants hone their skills in their field of study. The Campus is Wi-Fi enabled.

Learning Management System (E-Learning)

The PGXPM participants have a well-built elearning module which serves as an off-campus tool. The LMS supports the collaborative learning community, offering multiple modes of learning from self-paced coursework (web-based seminars and classes, CD-ROM and video content) to scheduled classes and group learning (online forums and chats).

Recreational Activities

The PGXPM participants can enjoy inbound and outbound group events such as Carrom, Swimming, Cricket, Beach Volleyball, etc. Participants are encouraged to avail the facilities at the Great Lakes campus in Saidapet, Chennai. The facilities offered at the Institute - library, computer lab, internet, gym and cafeteria - would be open between 7.00 am to 11.00 pm on weekdays and from 8.00 am to 6.00 pm on Sundays.

 
THE ELEMENTS

Organizational Behavior

Provides the knowledge and insights to better diagnose and implement organizational change. Helps managers to describe situations completely, diagnose the organizational behavior, prescribe the best practices or most appropriate behavior for given organizational situations, and then act effectively in those situations. The topics include individuals in organizations, groups and teams in organizations, building an organizational culture, structuring high-performance organizations, influences on organizational structure and managing change in organizations.

Marketing Management

Addresses the importance of companies being market-driven and customerfocused and presents current theories and practices of marketing management. Topics include strategies for pioneering brands, later entrants and strategies for growth in declining markets and hyper competition. Develops an understanding of skills needed in formulating and planning marketing strategies and acquisitions.

Business Economics Explores the nature and determinants of decisions about profit maximizing, production and pricing. It creates a vivid, dynamic business setting that highlights micro-economic theory and the tools of quantitative analysis used in management decision-making. The course reinforces the connection between economics and real business situations, government and industry, challenges and opportunities for today's managers and economic decisionmaking in the 21st century. Topics include forecasting, the theory and estimation of production and cost, pricing and output decisions, special pricing practices, capital budgeting and risk uncertainty.

Basic Financial Accounting For this basic course on Financial Accounting participants are not expected to have any prior knowledge of accounting or finance. The topics which are covered in this course are personal and corporate balance sheet, personal and corporate profit and loss statement, basic accounting equation, transaction accounting, monopoly game and preliminary financial statement analysis.

Quantitative Methods Provides a comprehensive treatment of basic statistical concepts and methods for managers. Topics covered include time series, categorical data, random variables and their distributions, variability and regression models. The emphasis is on understanding the concepts and their applications.
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